March 23rd Events |
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| March 23rd, 2007 (March 23 2007) | Event | Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia. | |
| March 23rd, 2007 (March 23 2007) | Event | Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters. | |
| March 23rd, 2006 (March 23 2006) | Event | The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply. | |
| March 23rd, 2005 (March 23 2005) | Event | The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo s feeding tube. | |
| March 23rd, 2005 (March 23 2005) | Event | A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers. | |
| March 23rd, 2004 (March 23 2004) | Event | Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India. | |
| March 23rd, 2003 (March 23 2003) | Event | In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. | |
| March 23rd, 2001 (March 23 2001) | Event | The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. | |
| March 23rd, 1999 (March 23 1999) | Event | Gunmen assassinate Paraguay s Vice President Luis Maria Argana. | |
| March 23rd, 1996 (March 23 1996) | Event | Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. | |
| March 23rd, 1994 (March 23 1994) | Event | At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martinez. | |
| March 23rd, 1994 (March 23 1994) | Event | Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot s fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing 75. | |
| March 23rd, 1994 (March 23 1994) | Event | A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing a group of 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground later to become known as the Green Ramp disaster. | |
| March 23rd, 1989 (March 23 1989) | Event | Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah. | |
| March 23rd, 1983 (March 23 1983) | Event | Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1982 (March 23 1982) | Event | Guatemala s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efrain Rios Montt. | |
| March 23rd, 1980 (March 23 1980) | Event | Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. | |
| March 23rd, 1978 (March 23 1978) | Event | The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. | |
| March 23rd, 1965 (March 23 1965) | Event | NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). | |
| March 23rd, 1962 (March 23 1962) | Event | NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower s Atoms for Peace initiative. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1956 (March 23 1956) | Event | Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the worldied in (Republic Day in Pakistan) | |
| March 23rd, 1942 (March 23 1942) | Event | World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands. | |
| March 23rd, 1940 (March 23 1940) | Event | The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. | |
| March 23rd, 1935 (March 23 1935) | Event | Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. | |
| March 23rd, 1933 (March 23 1933) | Event | The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1931 (March 23 1931) | Event | Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. | |
| March 23rd, 1919 (March 23 1919) | Event | In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1909 (March 23 1909) | Event | Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1908 (March 23 1908) | Event | American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. | |
| March 23rd, 1903 (March 23 1903) | Event | The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes. | |
| March 23rd, 1896 (March 23 1896) | Event | The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels. | |
| March 23rd, 1889 (March 23 1889) | Event | Land Run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22. | |
| March 23rd, 1889 (March 23 1889) | Event | The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London. | |
| March 23rd, 1889 (March 23 1889) | Event | The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. | |
| March 23rd, 1879 (March 23 1879) | Event | War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully took over Arica and Tarapaca which left Bolivia as a landlocked country. | |
| March 23rd, 1868 (March 23 1868) | Event | The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. | |
| March 23rd, 1857 (March 23 1857) | Event | Elisha Otis s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City. | |
| March 23rd, 1848 (March 23 1848) | Event | The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealandied in Otago province is founded. | John Scott Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1821 (March 23 1821) | Event | Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence. | |
| March 23rd, 1806 (March 23 1806) | Event | After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. | |
| March 23rd, 1801 (March 23 1801) | Event | Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael s Castle. | |
| March 23rd, 1775 (March 23 1775) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John s Church in Richmond, Virginia. | Patrick Henry Quotes |
| March 23rd, 1708 (March 23 1708) | Event | James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. | |
| March 23rd, 1568 (March 23 1568) | Event | Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots. | |
| March 23rd, 1174 (March 23 1174) | Event | Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow. | |
